ROCKFORD - Hannah Warren will expand and launch projects next month aimed at helping needy people in India and elsewhere.

She will update the website for Jhoole Fashion (jhoole.org), the company she created a few years ago, and post a new clothing line made by women in India.

And Warren, 29, will unveil a lotus symbol for other businesses to lease to mark their products, signifying that they - like Jhoole (pronounced "joo-LAY") - give all of their profits to aid humanitarian enterprises.

Jhoole has been selling scarves online but will begin featuring dresses with hand-stamped designs on jersey that cost $30 to $100. The 100 women who make the clothes earn $150 to $200 a month. Before Jhoole employed them, most were farmers earning that amount in a year.

"They make enough to be able to earn a very good wage, one that they pretty much can't make anywhere else," Warren said.

She expects Jhoole's annual sales this year to triple, to $150,000.

Warren splits her time between living in Rockford - she attended the Creative and Performing Arts Program at Auburn High School - and India, where Jhoole is based.

She is the daughter of Dan Warren, a parish administrator at St. Anskar's Episcopal Church, and Lisa Warren, a child-development manager in Head Start.

All of the Jhoole's proceeds help pay for educational services, elderly care and similar programs in India.

The lotus, an aquatic plant, is the national flower of India. It represents long life, honor and good fortune, and is regarded as a symbol of triumph because of its ability to regerminate for thousands of years.

Warren, who is working on a master's degree, said Jhoole is likely to lease the lotus mark to humanitarian groups in the U.S. and overseas for three years. "Nothing like this exists for social enterprises" that she is aware of.

Elise Cadigan, District Rotary Foundation chairwoman, is "amazed when I think about the breadth of what this woman has done. She has changed lives for the good at such a young age."

Warren was a Rotary exchange student in Thailand when she was 17.

Cadigan said Rotary International is creating a 27-minute video about Warren's Jhoole efforts and plans to pitch it to PBS.